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To investigate how combining materials can make more useful properties.To identify the sensory qualities of certain materials.To identify that sound travels faster through certain materials.At least two adults if working with a large class. Art materials (glue, paint, scissors, pencils, sellotape, large work space).Teddy bears or large A4 images of teddy bears.Picturebook story of ‘Peace at Last’ (Jill Murphy).A variety of recycled materials (newspaper, bottle tops, bottles, cardboard boxes, pen lids, cotton wool, etc).Children will also have experience Hazoume’s artwork and investigated the materials of the masks in the museum. In the weeks leading up to this activity the class and teacher will have been collecting as many different recycled materials as possible from home and around the school. Children will be investigating different materials and their properties for the purpose of designing and making a mask for Mr Bear in the story ‘Peace at Last’ by Jill Murphy. To incorporate Hazoume’s artwork and the importance of recycling into the masks topic, I have designed a science experiment with cross-curricular links to English and Citizenship. The idea of reusing as much of our daily rubbish as we can inspires me and is something I wish to inspire the children in my class to do often, in school and at home. Romauld Hazoume’s artwork serves a number of purposes to decorate, to inspire, to reuse and many more. The ever-present thudding of her heart sounded in her ears. Claire Murphy pounded again on her ten-year-old son's door. The TV weatherman's smooth, loud tones predicted rain for metropolitan Atlanta, while the computer speakers in the home office blared Iron Maiden and the old DVD player in the kitchen cranked Judas Priest. When she isn't writing, she home schools her children and, with the help of a wonderful group of people, is working toward building a holistic school in her area. She now resides in Roswell, Georgia, a suburb of metro-Atlanta, with her husband, three daughters, and a big cat. Even then it took about five years of juggling husband, children, and nonprofit work with her writing before she finally mastered the art of rejection and landed her first sale. Over the years she followed the muse from time to time, but didn't get serious about writing until after her third child's birth. Unfortunately, Dorie took the magazine's request to shorten the story as a flat rejection. That attempt resulted in her teacher reading her work aloud to the class, then submitting her story to Highlights magazine. Dorie was initially struck by the writing muse at the tender age of nine, when she stayed up past her bedtime for the first time ever to finish a short story. Khai fighting his feelings for her was such a cool thing to read about because he truly believed he has no feelings. Esme’s energy and desire to please Khai was refreshingly adorable. Khai can’t say no to his mother, so when she tells him he will have a roommate for the summer, the young man who doesn’t even date can’t refuse her. Desperately wanting a better life for her family, Esme left her child with her parents and went to California for the summer. When Khai’s mom happened upon her, she knew she found the perfect girl for him. Esme lived in a tiny one-room shack in Vietnam, sleeping on the floor with her child and her parents and cleaning hotel bathrooms to support them. Khai had resigned himself to being alone, and he was fine about it until his mother traveled to Vietnam to find him a wife. Real loneliness would stick with you all the time. It wasn’t loneliness if it could be eradicated with work or a Netflix marathon or a good book. “Lonely was for people who had feelings, which he didn’t. Khai’s emotions are expressed differently than the average person and when he didn’t cry at something everyone else did, he assumed he was completely incapable of love and pushed everyone away. The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang was one of my favorite books of 2018 and I couldn’t wait to read The Bride Test, featuring Khai, the young autistic accountant. *If you like shorter reviews, skip down to The Down & Dirty* It is not an especially graceful or well-proportioned building, just a bit too tall for its width and giving the impression that it has been haphazardly assembled of all the pieces the owner thought should go into a rich man’s house: a porticoed front door, bay windows, terraces, a conservatory. The house is late Victorian, built for the founder of Hambleton’s, the toffee manufacturers, in 1890. The sycamore has outgrown the lawn and towers threateningly over the house, the ivy covers more of the grey stone. The garden is looking a bit rough around the edges now. It is a large house, a house which announces itself to the world, and if it spoke louder to me as a boy than it does to me now, it is still the same Greystone: sitting foursquare in the garden, with its smooth lawns and yew hedges and yes, even with the big urns filled with geraniums either side of the front door steps. But I know this must be it, and as I continue down the drive an earlier perspective reasserts itself. In my memory Greystone House is more imposing, more extravagant in its collection of gables and chimneys and outbuildings. I walk through the gates of 22 Andover Lane, and for a moment I wonder if I have come to the right place. It takes many years for them to learn to talk to each other, to reveal their whole selves. This leads to lots of misunderstandings and miscommunication. Over the years, as they grow older, they continue to struggling with their feelings about themselves and each other. We follow Marianne and Connell through their last year of high school into university. From that moment, wherever they go, their lives are entwined. Talking to each other at Marianne’s one day, while Connell was waiting for his mom, the two teens had a conversation that starts a complicated friendship. He calls his mother by her first name, Lorraine. In contrast, Connell is a center forward on the football team and one of the popular boys, and he and his mother are friends. Her home life is no better, with physical and mental abuse. While the teenagers talk to each other when Marianne comes to pick up his mother after work, they do not acknowledge each other at school.Īt school, both Marianne and Connell are very smart. Connell’s mother was a single mother who had him at the age of 17 and one of her brothers served time in prison.Ĭonnell’s mother works as a maid for Marianne’s rich family. Marianne’s mother is a solicitor, and her father was one as well. Both of them are being brought up by their mother Marianne’s father died when she was 13 and Connell never knew his father. Marianne and Connell go to the same school, but are from opposite sides of the track. Normal People is a contemporary fiction novel written by Sally Rooney set in Ireland. Shawn Smucker is the author of the novels Light from Distant Stars, The Day the Angels Fell and The Edge of Over There, as well as the memoir, Once We Were Strangers. We discussed his work as a cowriter, ghostwriter, and novelist, and our discussion took place just before release day for his nonfiction book Once We Were Strangers. Today, I bring you the first of the three: a conversation with Shawn Smucker. But you’ll know an interview from a solo show because I’ll include “interview” in the subject line-that way you can set aside a longer chunk of time to listen. I’m going to share these conversations with you, mixing them in with my standard short solo episodes in other words, you won’t be getting all three interviews in a row. We discussed all things writing, like their writing challenges, their writing process, and their advice for writers. At a writing conference held October 12 and 13, 2018, I interviewed three authors who served on the speaking team. Since that time, the work has inspired city planners, architects, legislators, designers and citizens everywhere. "The future will require us to build better places," Kunstler says, "or the future will belong to other people in other societies." The Geography of Nowhere has become a touchstone work in the two decades since its initial publication, its incisive commentary giving language to the feeling of millions of Americans that our nation's suburban environments were ceasing to be credible human habitats. Kunstler proposes that by reviving civic art and civic life, we will rediscover public virtue and a new vision of the common good. It is also a wake-up call for citizens to reinvent the places where we live and work, to build communities that are once again worthy of our affection. The Geography of Nowhere tallies up the huge economic, social, and spiritual costs that America is paying for its car-crazed lifestyle. In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in all its ghastliness. James Howard Kunstler is the author of The Long Emergency, Too Much Magic, The Geography of Nowhere, the World Made By Hand novels, and more than a dozen other books. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape BUY THIS BOOK The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape James Howard. Worried that his abilities define their friendship, Bear embarks on an epic quest to find a magical forest spirit who may be able to help him regain his sight. The two make a great team, but when Bear’s vision suddenly vanishes one day, making him blind as well, he decides that the only way to stay by Patrick’s side is to find a way to get his sight back. Plus, talking animals! I guarantee you will not see the world the same way after you’ve seen it through the eyes of Bear.”īear follows the eponymous guide dog whose love for his owner, Patrick, knows no bounds. “ Bear is a wonder-filled adventure about the deep bond of friendship. Joe Todd-Stanton’s illustrations take that unique lens and add a whole new level of imagination and joy,” Queen said in a statement. “With Bear I really wanted to create something that shows a world that we are familiar with, but in a completely new and original way. The Beat can exclusively announce that BOOM! Studios imprint Archaia will publish Bear, a kids’ graphic novel about a guide dog and his owner, in August 2020. Pixar’s Ben Queen ( Cars 2, Cars 3, NBC’s A to Z) and children’s book author and illustrator Joe Todd-Stanton ( Arthur and the Golden Rope) will take readers on an all new adventure next summer. William Dalrymple is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society, and is the founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival. White Mughals was published in 2003, the book won the Wolfson Prize for History 2003, the Scottish Book of the Year Prize, and was shortlisted for the PEN History Award, the Kiryama Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. A collection of his writings about India, The Age of Kali, won the French Prix D’Astrolabe in 2005. From the Holy Mountain, his acclaimed study of the demise of Christianity in its Middle Eastern homeland, was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Autumn Book Award for 1997 it was also shortlisted for the 1998 Thomas Cook Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. In 1989 Dalrymple moved to Delhi where he lived for six years researching his second book, City of Djinns, which won the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. The book won the 1990 Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award and a Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award it was also shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. He wrote the highly acclaimed bestseller In Xanadu when he was twenty-two. William Dalrymple was born in Scotland and brought up on the shores of the Firth of Forth. |